lol

ok i am NOT normal, because most of my day consists of testing some games on my PC. But i gotta say that most people who are into gaming nowadays don't fit the cliche of "recluse NEET gamer" anymore.

So if you don't wanna feel normal, you are free to do so, as long as you aren't a piece of shit my dude ;-)

laughs in ancient punk

nazis don't care about the values embedded in the culture before they show up, and they won't listen to your critiques on how they don't fit. nazis don't hear nothing except bats and boots.

There was a large push in europe around the 2000,2010s by the neofolk chuds, trying to push into the goth scene. they were largely unsuccessful.

Edit: They were mainly trying to push the Nazi look to be accepted in the goth scene - Long leather mantles, Brownshirt and Tradwive shit. The Goths didn't take the bait.

I don't know how I feel about it.

I probably game too much, even as an elderly old man. I still call myself a gamer AND want Steve Bannon and all his diet nazis to die in the most humiliating and embarrassing way possible... crushed by frozen poop falling from a plane sounds fun.

This is what nazis do. Take good or innocuous things and pervert them. All they do is destroy.

I'll still keep calling myself a gamer while respecting your desire to distance yourself from scum.

that's a good mindset to have

It also ignored casual gamers. Like I think little phone games are now the biggest market. Honestly I think gamer is such a blanket term it doesn't have a lot of meaning anymore. I am pretty sure just by how widely digital gaming is now, how many players are like under 10 years old etc like they could NOT be gamergate people.

There's not. I've never heard of gamergate before this thread and I know I'm not alone. I've probably referred to myself as a gamer before as it's shorter than saying I play video games.

That sounds to me like theorizing if perhaps there is a difference between people who play football and people who identity as a footballer.

What does that really mean?

Both enjoy their hobby with the only difference being if they choose to introduce themselves by the hobby, but still doesn't really tell us much about them.

Other than I guess other than some anecdotal assumptions that are going to widely vary on peoples personal interactions and which social media they choose to interact with.

Thank you so much, I always heard about it and saw it referenced in discussion but didn't actually know what the hell happened or what it actually was, I'll have to sit down and give this a watch!